= General Project Information
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* Apache ActiveMQ Artemis is an open source project to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
* Apache ActiveMQ Artemis is an example of Message Oriented Middleware (MoM).
For a description of MoMs and other messaging concepts please see the xref:messaging-concepts.adoc#messaging-concepts[Messaging Concepts].
* If you have any questions related to the use or development of Apache ActiveMQ Artemis please use one of our https://activemq.apache.org/contact[mailing lists].
* *Official project page*: https://activemq.apache.org/components/artemis/.
* *Download*: https://activemq.apache.org/components/artemis/download/
* *Git repository*: https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis[https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis^]
